Homelessness

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Downtown Seattle skyline on a dark cloudy day
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Michele Steeb
December 1, 2025
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“Humanitarian Emergency”: Seattle’s New Mayor Must Bring an End to the City’s Homelessness Crisis

Michele Steeb
December 1, 2025
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Seattle's incoming mayor, Katie Wilson, will inherit a homelessness crisis that will define her ability to lead. Seattle's homeless population needs more than another round of aspirational promises. They need and deserve an operational reset grounded in compassion, accountability, and the courage to confront realities the city has failed to address for years. Read More ›
SF-Harm-Reduction
November 24, 2025
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San Francisco’s Harm Reduction Problems

November 24, 2025
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San Francisco has been handing out drug paraphernalia freely to addicts for decades. Under the new administration of Mayor Daniel Lurie, however, individuals must be connected to treatment, counseling, or other recovery services to continue receiving these supplies. Filmmaker SIX SEVEN KEVIN speaks with addicts, residents, and city officials about the conditions of San Francisco’s streets. 6’7 Kevin is a documentary Read More ›

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Homeless person sleeping on a mattress
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Center on Wealth & Poverty
November 17, 2025
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New Federal Direction Frees Cities to Ditch Housing First, Pursue Real Solutions

Center on Wealth & Poverty
November 17, 2025
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SEATTLE, WA — “Federal reforms have finally created space for local leaders to put treatment and recovery back at the center of homelessness policy,” says Discovery Institute President Steve Buri. “Real compassion means helping people reclaim stability and dignity, not leaving them trapped in addiction and illness without a path to restoration.” Read More ›
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Urban Homelessness in Los Angeles
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Scott Walter and Bruce Chapman
November 4, 2025
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Left-Wing Activists Have Made Homelessness a Political Business

Scott Walter and Bruce Chapman
November 4, 2025
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Moves by President Trump to crack down on cities drowning in crime and public disorder are long overdue. For years, liberal jurisdictions have let chaos run wild, with banners calling for defunding the police waving high, antisemitism parading through public parks and drug use running rampant. Read More ›
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Light still shine even in the moment of despair , a girl facing down alone in abandoned building in Low key photo
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Michele Steeb
October 20, 2025
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Housing Without Healing Won’t Cure Homelessness

Michele Steeb
October 20, 2025
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Homelessness in California — and across America — has reached a breaking point. The crisis has climbed to the highest level ever recorded, even as billions more are poured into housing subsidies and bureaucratic programs that promise compassion but deliver only despair. No one bears the consequences more cruelly than the homeless themselves. Their death rate has soared by 77% in the country’s largest urban areas, a devastating indictment of a system that prioritizes housing units over human healing. Read More ›
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Closeup of a masked antifa protestor
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Center on Wealth & Poverty
October 13, 2025
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New Report: How Extremists Infiltrated Homelessness Advocacy in America

Center on Wealth & Poverty
October 13, 2025
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Washington, D.C. — Today, the Capital Research Center (CRC) released a new report in cooperation with Discovery Institute exploring how extremist ideological movements are exploiting America's homelessness crisis, which can include hundreds of thousands of vulnerable people on any given night. Read More ›
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Diverse group of activists people holding posters and banners antiwar protesting against war and violence in the world.
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Bruce Chapman
October 7, 2025
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Report To Reveal Infiltration of Homelessness Movement

Bruce Chapman
October 7, 2025
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Last spring we went to the Capital Research Center (CRC) in Washington, D.C., where a fine report had just been issued on the links between radical Islamists and campus demonstrations on Gaza. We explained what we were seeing and asked the CRC head, Scott Walker, if his group could chart the way that the homelessness services programs were being reshaped as a united base for far-left advocacy on a whole range of issues. Read More ›